CfP: Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2008)

			Search in Social Media
			      (SSM 2008)

	    A workshop held in conjunction with CIKM 2008

			   October 30, 2008
		       Napa Valley, California

		 http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/

			   CALL FOR PAPERS

Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. Social
media are a fascinating phenomenon because they establish new forums
for content creation, allow people to connect to each other and share
information, and permit novel applications at the intersection of
people and information. However, whereas in the general web search is
a critical application that drives usability, social media has been
primarily popular for connecting people, not for finding
information. While there has been progress on searching particular
kinds of social media, such as blogs, search in others
(facebook/myspace/flickr) are not as well understood.

The purpose of this one-day workshop is to focus the attention of the
research community on this emerging topic, and to bring together
information retrieval and social media researchers and industry
players to consider the following questions: How should we search in
social media? What are the needs of users, and models of those needs,
specific to social media search?  What models make the most sense? How
does search interact with existing uses of social media? What works
and what doesn't?

We solicit original, unpublished research papers in the following
areas:

 -  Blog search
 -  Search in folksonomies / searching tagged data
 -  Do tags or folksonomies improve search?
 -  Searching Wikipedia discussions and revision history
 -  Searching within social networks
 -  Expert finding within social information networks
 -  Searching social media for information that is timely, reliable, hot
 -  Studies of users searching in social media
 -  Characterizing and understanding the users tasks
 -  New social search applications
 -  User tasks for social network analysis
 -  Searching online discussions, mailing lists, forums
 -  Searching in community help and question-answering environments
 -  Interactions between searching and browsing
 -  Spam in social media
 -  Adversarial interactions such as vote and digg spam

Research papers should be submitted in PDF format and not exceed 8
pages including references and figures.  Alongside research
presentations, the workshop will feature a keynote address by Andrew
Tomkins of Yahoo!, as well as panels to provoke discussion and debate
on the role of searching on the social web.  If you would like to be
part of a panel, please submit a 2--4 page position paper describing
your experience and expected contribution.  Industry perspectives are
especially welcome.

Workshop home page: http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008
Submissions site:   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssm2008

Submission deadline: July 20, 2008
Notifications:       August 10, 2008


Organizers: Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology
	    Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
	    Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research

Program Committee
 -  Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
 -  Eytan Adar, University of Washington
 -  Jaime Arguello, Carnegie Mellon University
 -  Bettina Berendt, KU Leuven
 -  Carlos Castillo, Yahoo!
 -  Nick Diakopoulos, Georgia Institute of Technology
 -  Jonathan Elsas, Carnegie Mellon University
 -  Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research
 -  Lee Giles, Penn State University
 -  Natalie Glance, Google
 -  Paul Heymann, Stanford University
 -  Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel
 -  Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs
 -  Jure Lescovec, Carnegie Mellon University
 -  Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow
 -  Milena Mihail, Georgia Institute of Technology
 -  Gilad Mishne, Yahoo!
 -  Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow
 -  Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam
 -  Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Institute of Technology
 -  Ding Zhou, Facebook